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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18509, 21 March 1922, Page 4

Bishop Liston’s utterances regarding Ireland, and the Mayor’s official protest, formed the chief topic of discussion in the city yesterday (wires our Auckland correspondent). Speaking at the Rotary Club luncheon, the president, Mr C. Rhodes, said members of the club must have been interested, if not thrilled, by the publication of Mr Ounson’s remarks. This produced loud and prolonged applause, followed by three cheers for the Mayor. When the demonstration had subsided! Mr Rhodes remarked that members bad said what he wanted to say SO times better than he oould have done it. The Mayor (Mr J. S. Douglas) presided yesterday over a meeting of the Council of the Young Citizens’ League at which the following office-bearers were elected: — President, Mr R. Gilkison; vice-presidents—-the Mayor, Professor Strong; hon. medical adviser. Dr Mecrody; organiser, Mr J. M. Innes; hon. secretary (pro tom), Mr Carrington , treasurer, Mr P. B. Foote j executive committee—Mrs Macfie, Misses M’Kenzio and Runoiman, Messrs J. J. Clark and 3. Dunkley. The new organiser is an elderly gentleman of tome 70 years. Our Auckland correspondent wires that a start has been made at Penrose with the erection of buildings for the Australian Glass Manufacturing Company, which has decided to enter upon the manufacture of all kinds of bottles and jars. The ultimate extent of the works depends largely on the question of tariff protection. The Government is in possession of all the facts relating to the industry, and will decide as to what extent it is worthy of encouragement. The works will be in operation before the end of the year. Should adequate protection be given it is proposed to extend the buildings and employ about 600 hands. The New Zealand Gazette last week contained the notifications of twenty-three bankruptcies, of which three only were in the South Island. The Auckland district contributed two to the list; .the Hamilton district, three; the New Plymouth district, one; the Napier district, three; the Wanganui district, seven (all being the bankruptcies of motor oar or taxi-cab proprietors) : the Palme-ston North district, one; the Masterton district, one; the Wellington district, two; the Nelson district, one; the Christchurch district, one; and the Invercargill district, one. Statistics for the season 1920-21, the compilation of which* was delayed through the taking of the census, show that there were 37,837 •purebred cattle in the dominion at that time. Of these 12,997 were Jerseys, 8585 Shorthorns, 5221 Hereford?, 5091 Friesians, 3543 Polled Angus, and ’2169 Ayrshires. The crossbred cattle numbered 3,129,223. There were 337,259 horses, 245 asses and mules, and 349,892 pigs. “I have just come back from Auckland,” said a Dunedin business man yesterday; ‘T was there for nine days, and I did not see the sun once It rained every day, and there was a muggy heat that was most oppressive.” But he observed that Auckland people did not go about complaining of their weather, as some of the residents oi some other cities do. Our Auckland correspondent wires that the third and final wool sale of the present season will take place to-day when 12,095 bales will be offered. A full bench of buyers is anticipated, including representatives of Bradford, Continental, American, and Japanese houses. A formal inquest was hold by Mr Bartholomew, district coroner, yesterday afternoon, respecting tile sudden death on Sunday night of Margaret Webster, a married woman, 36 years of age, residing with her husband at Ajax rood, Port Chalmers. Dr W. H. Borrie, in giving evidence, said deceased had been in poor health with indications of heart weakness for the past six years. Although he had not attended her for the past two years, nevertheless when called in after her decease he concluded that death was due to heart failure. The verdict was In accordance with the medical evidence.

j Intending vendor* at the forthcoming . ram and ©we fair to be held at Burnside Kaleyards on Tuesday, March 28, under k the auspices of the Otago Agricultural and ■ Pastoral Society, are reminded that the en- , tries close at the society’s office on Wednes- ( day evening, March 23, when only sheep registered in the Now Zealand Flock Books, and catalogued by the ■society, will be > offered for sale. The order of sale of the ■ various breeds of sheep will be balloted for L prior to entry in the catalogue. I His Honor the Ohief Justice (Sir Robert j Stout) has granted letters of administration in the estate of Christina Cameron, 1 William Henderson, and Robert liewellyn < Cross (Milbum), and probate in the es- ) tates of Dorothy Blaokie, Nelly Powell Gordon, Robert Thompson, Janet Paterson, ’ William Morrison (Roxburgh), Lucy Wilson Souness (Kaitangata), Edwin Fowler Palmer !| (Otokia), Albert Edward Tripp (Outram), - and George Harris (Waitati). I Among the things recovered from the ; war (writes the London correspondent of , the Argus) were five grammes of radium bromide, taken from gun sights by the Dis- * posal Board. In all, radium to the value 1 of £72,500 was saved, and was made availl able for medical research. It weighed five 1 grammes, and hoe now been divided into r portions for distribution from such centres ’ as London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Aberdeen, and Ireland. In each cose the portion of 1 radium of bromide was put into a little ■ hollow tube of platinum about the size I of a small gramophone needle. It is said , that there were not half-a-dozen chemists or physicists in the country who could have ' undertaken the delicate task of sharing out the five grammes. Some of the por- ! lions were only one-hundredth of a gramme i each. Professor Sydney Russ and Mr Har- ! rison Glow did the work of making up I the portions. ( The annual meeting of householders for the election of school committees will be held on Wednesday, April 12, at 7.30 p.m. 1 The names of householders nominated for I election are to he sent into the chairman , of the School Committee before 8 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, April 5. This is the 1 only form of nomination allowed in dis- > triota where the average attendance at the • public school for 1921 exceeded 120. In i districts where the average was not more than 120, nominations may be made as above or by word of mouth at the annual 1 meeting. Our London correspondent, writing on 1 January 26, says: Last evening Sir Arthur i Goldfinch gave a dinner at the Carlton Hotel in honour of Mr Francis Willey, J.P., on the occasion of his receiving a peerage. Sir James Allen was one of the guests, .and among the 50 or 60 others were prominent public men, and a number concerned with the woollen industry. The dinner was a private function, and the speeches were more personal than commercial. Sir Arthur Goldfinch made a brilliant speech, which created considerable impression on the High oonunissioner. A sentiment expressed more than once during the evening was that the woollen trade had made tremendous sacrifices diming the war, and it was largely owing to the wool producers and the manufacturers that the British Armies had been able to win through to victory. Mr Willey, who had much to do with the organisation of the woollen trade during the war, and is probably the most influential magnate of the trade in Great Britain, has decided to adopt the title of Lord Bamby. At a short sitting of the City Police Court yesterday, before Mr H. W. Bundle, 8.M., Thos. Gray Risk was remanded till March 24 on a charge of stealing a pocket wallet, valued at £X, and a brooch, valued at £l9, the property of Robert Spray. Mr B. S. Irwin appeared for accused. Bail was allowed —self in £SO, and two sureties of £SO or one of £IOO. 1 The Hon. G. J, Anderson (Minister of Labour), accompanied by his private seoretry (Mr M. Sherwood) arrived in Dunedin last night from the south. _ This morning the Minister will proceed north on his way to Wellington “We are cutting cut a man who has been doing the job for 8s and we ate doing it lor 2s,’’ said Cr Reeve* at last night’s meeting of the Port Chaln#rs Council when the matter of doing sanitary service for the Railway Department at Sawyer’s Bay was being considered. The matter was referred to the Sanitary Committee. Yesterday at the Port Chalmert Court Arthur Riley, John Ingate, and Percival G. Etherton pleaded guilty to charges of using threatening behaviour and causing a breach of the .peace in a hotel bar on Saturday. They were convicted and fined 10s each. The presiding J.P.’s were Messrs J. Watson and J. Tait. By the will of Mrs Mary Kennedy (widow of Mr* Martin Kennedy, of Wellington) the sum of £II,OOO has been bequeathed to Catholic institutions and charities, the bequests Including £IOOO for high altar, new St. Mary of the Angels (Boulcott-street); £2OO for Masses; £250 (given prior to death) to the new St. Patrick’ College Building Fund; £250 (given prior to death) to the new Marist Brothers’ Novitiate for New Zealand. The following sums have been placed in trust for the following objects, which will receive the income therefrom: £250, St. Vincent de Paul Sewing Guild; £250, Foreign Missions: £SOO, St. Joseph’s Orphanage, Upper Hutt; £IOOO, Marist Seminary, Greenmeadows, for educating candidates to the priesthood; £SOO, for Masses; £SOO, Mill Hill Fathers, Rotorua; £2OOO, Home of Compassion, Island Bay; £SOO, relief of poor in Wellington; £SOO, Order of the Good Shepherd, Christchurch; £IOOO, for the personal benefit and oomfort of the Marist Brothers in Wellington; £OOOO, primary education, Wellington (Catholic Education Board); £250, for education of poor children Saored Heart Primary School, Island Bay. The annual meeting of the Otago Association Football Referees* dub advertised to be held last night, was owing to the inclemency of the weather and the absence from Dunedin of several members. It was decided to hold the meeting next Monday night. A rather good story comes from Hokitika anent the recent race meeting there. It appears that a well-known North Island sprinter who competed at the meeting there was thought to be so good that the owners and their friends bad a substantial punt on him. The race was run, and to their great surprise the gelding ran like an absolute duffer on the first day; and on the second day his party were so disgusted that he was allowed to start practically unbacked, and he duly won with the ease. The owners then instituted inquiries, and they found out that, while the horse was in the paddock previous to the first day’s races, some youngsters, thinking it a shame to see a horse in a place in which there was no feed, in their goodness of heart supplied the animal with several sackfuls of thistles, and the horse performed as might have been expected on the first occasion. What the owners said when they found out has not yet appeared in print. An ex-resident of Christchurch who is now stationed at Batavia writes as follows to a member of the Press staff (telegraphs our correspondent): “Things are very bad in Java just now and business is practically nil. Many firms are tottering and there have been many collapses among the Chinese big firms. Wo are hoping for better times soon, but the average cost of living does not oome down. Such things as bread, rice, and sugar, etc., are lower, but rents and general living expenses are still on the upward track. The taxation is awful, and on March 1 al! import duties will rise another 30 per cent. People will not be able to live here soon.” The waterside workers’ dispute came before the Conciliation Council yesterday (says a Christchurch Press Association message). An agreement was reached on the question of holidays, but the more important rpoposals concerning the rates of pay, conditions of labour, cto., wore referred to the Arbitration Court. Mails which arrived in Wellington by the Manuka were brought to Lyttelton by the Wahine last night. Mails for Dunedin consist of 51 bags from London, two from Dover, five from Glasgow, four from Edinburgh, one from Liverpool, two from Birmingham, 11 from Sydney, five from Melbourne, one each from Adelaide, Brisbane, and Hobart,

A party of Tanrauga residents visited the Peninsula, on which Bowentown Pa stands, a few days ago (says a correspondent of the New Zealand Herald) Mr F,' A. Turone of the party, was successful in finding part of a Maori axe, made of stone, and ■ numerous obsidian tods. Ho also found the remains of a skeleton of a moa, which was discovered lying beside a heap of small (tones such as are understood to have been carried in the gizzards of these birds. The bones were shattered and chalky, showing that they had been exposed for a long period. Some of tho pieces of shin bone were about a foot long ani on being shown to Captain Gilbert Mair were identified by him u mo* bones. The stones were equivalent to a double handful and were worn and rounded. It is understood that the Attorney-Gen-eral, Sir Francis Bell, who is to leave for England this month, will represent New Zealand at the Genoa Conference if he reaches Europe in time. To ensure the dominion being represented, in the event of Sir Francis Bell arriving too late for the sitting, tho Prime Minister has cabled to the Imerial authorities stating that New Zealand may ask to be represented by the British delegation to the conference. A talk to girls will be riven by Msg Jean Stevenson at the Girls’ Rally in Burns Hall this evening at T. 30 o'clock on the subject “A Girl and Her Country.” Dr Marion Whyte will occupy tho chair. Mr Y. E. Galway will give one of his popular organ recitals at First Church tonight. Mr W. Gemmell will b© the soloist. It was in respect to failure to maintain his mother that Athol Fraser M'Lean waa charged at the City Police Court on Friday, not his child, as reported. Leave the traffic in your dust. Ride a Hariey-Davidson motor cycle, and be first on the road. —W. A. Justice and Co., Otago agents 292 Prince* street. Dunedin.—Advt Brisk demand *ot “ The Thinker ” school exercise books and Golden Buie school rulers. Greatest boon to education. Parents delighted.—Advt. Men’s warm Union shirts, collars attached, light grounds, with assorted coloured stripes; splendid line for winter wear; price 10s 6d, post free. —Moilisoos Ltd.—Advt. Watson's No. 10 is a little deerer most whiskies, but is worth the money.— Advt. A B. J. Blakeley, dentist. Bank of An* tralasin, comer of Bond and Rattray streets (next Telegraph - Office). Telephone 1859.Advt. Save your Byes.—Consult Peter G. Dick. D.8.0.A., F. 1.0., London, consulting ana oculists’ optician.—“ Peter Diok,” jeweller* and opticians, Morey place, Dunedin.— Advt